A female Ukrainian medic, Yulia Paevskaya, with the Azov unit captured in Mariupol has been sent to Kiev in exchange for the captured son of Chechen deputy plenipotentiary in the Crimea, Murad Saidov.
The son, Adam, has been tagged as anti Russian and was living in Ukraine at the time of his detention.
As a part of the exchange, the Russians sent 25 million rubles to the Ukrainians.
Says Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets:
Listen to this youngster for yourself. I understand that if they really were exchanged for a military pilot, intelligence officer, and even for the daughter of the mayor of Kupyainsk, who is being held hostage by the Ukrainian terrorist neo-Nazi regime (including physically "processing her") because her father supported Russia. But to change it to this very slimy one? Of course, there should be punishment for those who made this exchange.
As they write , the exchange of the captive nationalist Yulia Paevskaya was carried out exclusively on a local initiative, without the knowledge of Moscow, which is the reason for the lack of operational public clarifications on this matter. It takes time to clarify all the circumstances of the incident, so official clarifications on this matter should be expected a little later.
One of the top Russian military correspondents, Irina Kuksenkova, who was carrying the story, received a phone call from Akhmed Dudayev:
The Minister of Information of Chechnya Akhmed Dudayev called me (I don’t know where I got the phone) and announced his position on the current situation with Taira - he stated with full responsibility that neither Isa Khachukaev nor Murad Saidov had anything to do with the fact that Taira ended up in Ukraine .
If so, then this is good and the further circle of searches narrows. Dudaev, however, accused me of provocations and undermining the authority of the entire Chechen Republic. But here’s someone, but I don’t need to tell how the Chechens are desperately fighting and shedding their blood in the NWO, I didn’t watch the war on the couch at home. This story is not about nationality, but about corruption. We - military correspondents - are just trying to understand the situation and get to the bottom of the truth.
And who extradited the Nazi Taira to Ukraine - a resident of the Ivanovo region, Bashkiria or Chechnya - is not even a question.
So, we heard and accepted the position of Isa Khachukaev and Murad Saidov. God grant that it be so.
But my sources, with whom I have been working for twenty years, continue to stand their ground and claim that the deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, Colonel Dmitry Usov, dealt with the issue of Adam Gritsenko, allegedly, he released Gritsenko from custody in Zaporozhye after Taira ended up in Ukraine ...
In general, I think that law enforcement agencies will figure out who and on whose instructions released the Nazi. All I want is the truth...
She has a point.
Concludes Chervonets:
1) Conclusions must be drawn, and those responsible for the fact that a neo-Nazi returned to Kiev from the pre-trial detention center of the DPR are punished.
2) Such an exchange should remain single. I repeat once again - the exchange fund is more than enough to exchange any Russian soldier, and not just for the son of a boss.
3) This story should consolidate the country's society in the opinion that there can be no exchanges and agreements with neo-Nazis. Firstly, anyway, 100% will be deceived, as a non-negotiator of Medinsky, and secondly, what kind of exchanges with the Nazis can there be in principle?
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
1. Severodonetsk.
Fighting in the industrial area around the Azot plant. The main enemy forces are actually blocked and do not have a full opportunity to retreat. The RF Armed Forces are systematically completing the operational encirclement of the grouping. There are isolated cases of surrender. Hostages are still being held at the plant itself. Completely cleared Metelkino.
2. Zolotnoye.
After the occupation of Chekhirovo and breaking into the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Toshkovka, our troops launched an offensive against Belaya Gora and Mirnaya Dolina.
There are also battles in the direction of Nikolayevka and Rai-Aleksandrovka. The grouping of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Gorsky and Zolote is actually in the operational environment. The only accessible road through Ray-Aleksandrovka is completely shot through.
3. Soledar.
Heavy fighting for Belogorovka and Berestovoe. The Artemovsk-Lysichansk road is blocked. If the enemy loses Nikolaevka, the issue of moving to the Lisichansk Oil Refinery will be resolved.
4. Artemovsk.
Fights in the area of Semigorye and Vershina. There are battles for Klinovoye. The enemy expects to defend himself along the Pokrovskoye-Klinovoye-Zaitsevo line. The development of the offensive from the southeast is holding back the unresolved issue with the Uglegorsk TPP.
5. Slavyansk.
Fighting in the area of Bogorodichny, Dolina, Krasnopolye, Prishib and Tatyanovka.
6. Izyum.
Battles at Bolshaya Kamyshevakha and Kurulka. The flank activity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had no success. The enemy expects an offensive to the Barvenkovo-Slavyansk highway.
7. Kharkov.
The enemy has abandoned attempts to recapture Ternovoe and Rubezhnoye and is preparing for the defense of Stary Saltov. Fights are expected for the Great Passages, Tsupovka and Dementyevka.
The offensive announced earlier by the RF Armed Forces has not yet begun.
8. Avdievka.
No significant changes. Fights near Kamenka, Novobakhmutovka and New York. There is no progress to Krasnogorovka yet. The counterbattery work of the RF Armed Forces is intensifying. The enemy continues to intensively shell Donetsk, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and other settlements.
9. Odessa.
The enemy made an unsuccessful attack on Zmeinny Island, and also attacked the Chernomorneftegaz platforms, destroying one of them.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the day delivering massive strikes in the Odessa region on the military infrastructure. More is expected in the coming days.
10. Nikolaev.
Positional battles in the Krivoy Rog direction.
In the Nikolaev direction, there are no significant changes, the transition to the control of the Russian Armed Forces of the village of Pravdino is noted.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Mikhail Demurin
[Regnum] Having studied the documents about the atrocities of the Nazis and their accomplices during the war years, one should not just be outraged once again. We must give ourselves a vow not to try to seek any compromise with this public even today.
The publication by the Federal Security Service of Russia of new documents on the crimes of Latvian accomplices of the German Nazis is the right and timely thing to do. It must be said, however, that these atrocities have always been known. Trials of Nazi punishers in the Soviet Union almost always took place in public. In late Soviet times, this topic, however, was somewhat retouched, taken to the background, but there is no doubt that everyone in the USSR knew about the criminals who killed and tortured their people along with the German occupiers: how it was in the Latvian SSR, what happened on other lands of the Soviet Union occupied by the enemy. They knew in Latvia and other republics of the USSR that the true heroes of the Latvian people were those who fought against the Nazis and their allies in the ranks of the Latvian Guards Rifle Division.
Therefore, the question for us today is not how we treat these crimes - it is clear that we treat them with indignation and hatred. The question is how we behave in relation to those who today raise to the shield those who did all this on Soviet soil, who were their ideologists, who justified cooperation with Hitler and called for it. This, by the way, applies not only to Latvia, but also to other new states in the space of the former USSR, to Russia itself.
In Latvia, the socio-political system has been saturated with neo-Nazi and revanchist grounds since 1989. Then, gradually, figures of the Latvian emigration began to come and settle there more and more often in the Latvian SSR. Even if not all of them themselves served in the SD punitive teams, the auxiliary police or the Latvian SS legion, although there were some, not all of them had fathers or grandfathers there, but they were from those families who sympathized with the political and ideological attitudes that guided by those who served Hitler.
Work on the Nazification of Latvia intensified in anticipation of its takeover by NATO and the EU. In 2003, the former British brigadier general of Latvian origin, Janis Kazhotsins, who received Latvian citizenship at the same time, was appointed to the post of head of the central Latvian intelligence service. Today he is an advisor to the President of Latvia, Egils Levits, and a secretary of the Latvian National Security Council.
His father served in the same police units mentioned in the FSB documents that helped the German SS and Gestapo arrest and exterminate Jews, communists, partisans; his uncle was an officer in the Latvian SS legion. Being the director of the Bureau for the Protection of the Constitution, Kazhotsins Jr. admitted to journalists that "he himself grew up with the legionnaires."
From Kažocins, family and political ties stretch, in particular, to the established war criminal Janis Cirulis, and through him again to the current president of Latvia. According to an investigation by the Historical Memory Foundation, Janis Cirulis was involved in the massacres of civilians in the Novgorod region of Russia, near the villages of Zhestyanaya Gorka and Chernoye. Then he served as an officer in the Latvian Legion of the SS (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), and after fleeing to Western Europe, he became one of the founders of the veteran legionnaire organization Daugava Hawks, led its West German branch. Then Cīrulis became the head of the Latvian Gymnasium in Münster, and Egils Levits graduated from it in 1973.
It is clear that the leaders of our country do not communicate with this public now. It is unpleasant, however, that they communicated. In 2005, the President of Latvia, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who also grew up in a family of Latvian collaborators and “absorbed the spirit of legionnaires,” was invited to celebrate the Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War, which is dearest to us.
The growth of pro-Nazi sentiments in Latvia was then evident, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reflected them in a reference document published in early 2005 “On the participation of the Latvian SS legion in war crimes in 1941-1945. and attempts to review the judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal in Latvia” (then our historians still wrote little on this topic, and it was not thrown into the public space at all), but the invitation nevertheless took place. It should not have been surprising later that Vike-Freiberga used her visit to Russia to
This, however, went unpunished for Riga - on the contrary, it was then that a border treaty was concluded with Latvia without any accompanying conditions, which was so necessary for it as a member of NATO and at the same time served, when discussing the issue of its ratification, for a provocative return to the thesis of keeping Latvia territorial claims against our country.
Today, the descendants of Nazi accomplices, already completely unrestrained from impunity, and the local revanchist rabble brought up by them, are destroying monuments to the victors of Nazism in Latvia, and are beginning to dig up their graves.
In a word, in connection with the publication of documents, it is important not to once again be indignant at the atrocities of the Nazis and their accomplices, but, looking at these documents, once again give yourself a vow not to try to seek some kind of compromise with this public, not to return to the old rake. The modern Latvian elite are our historical enemies, and we must consistently proceed from this when fighting for the restoration of Russia's positions in the Baltics.
About 1,000 gather in Riga for annual march of veterans of local Waffen SS units, with some 50 counter-demonstrators separated by police
By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF and JTA
17 Mar 2019
About 1,000 people gathered in the Latvian capital Riga for an annual march by local veterans and supporters of two Nazi SS divisions that made up the Latvian Legion during World War II.
Marchers paraded with Nazis insignias and other flags, laying wreaths on the Freedom Monument, while some 50 anti-fascist demonstrators protested the gathering.
The march was larger than in years past, reflecting the growing popularity of far-right movements in eastern and central Europe.
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Double Genocide
Lithuania wants to erase its ugly history of Nazi collaboration—by accusing Jewish partisans who fought the Germans of war crimes.
BY DANIEL BROOK
JULY 26, 2015
In one of its very first independent actions, before even fully breaking free of Moscow, Lithuania’s parliament formally exonerated several Lithuanian nationalists who had collaborated in the Holocaust and had been convicted by Soviet military courts after the war. The right-wing paramilitaries who had carried out the mass murder of Lithuania’s Jews were now hailed as national heroes on account of their anti-Soviet bona fides.
Among many now-glorified leaders was Jonas Noreika, a paramilitary fighter who was executed for his anti-Soviet activities in 1947. According to a Holocaust survivor’s account published in the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, Noreika led the extermination of the Jews in the Lithuanian city of Plunge. Since independence, however, Lithuania’s prosecutor general has restricted access to Noreika’s wartime files.
Meanwhile, the state body charged with investigating and memorializing Nazi- and Soviet-era atrocities, the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania, turned the former guerrilla leader into a national hero. In 1997, Noreika was posthumously awarded one of the state’s highest honors, the Order of the Cross of Vytis, First Degree; in 2010, a primary school was named after him.
At the same time, the new authorities have denigrated the anti-Nazi partisans: the Partisans Memorial from Pylimo Street now sits in a countryside park where the despised Lenins and Stalins that once stood in every Lithuanian town are left to collect dust and bird droppings. Its Genocide Centre–provided plaque says that partisans committed atrocities and were “mostly of Jewish nationality [since] native people didn’t support Soviet partisans
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So what? How many veterans of those units are left, 72 years later? And as screwed up as celebrating Nazi collaborators sounds, it's much more about them being anti-Soviet.
If the Russians don't like seeing those who fought against their imperialism celebrated, maybe they should stop threatening everyone with reconquest for their new empire.
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The biggest problem is the word "Nazi" has been so overused that it lost meaning. Anyone using it in a modern context could be referring to anyone from actual national socialist tribal racists to someone who believes in the ideals of the American founding. You want people to take the accusation seriously, then you have to get its abuse stopped.
And it's especially null-value when it comes from the Russia controlled by a guy who came out of the KGB.
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^ See: race card.
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Never ceases to amaze how one word becomes a basic pejorative for anything you hate given that the international socialists, aka commies, killed far far more than the national socialists, aka Nazis.
Placed in Opinion, for obvious reasons.
[REGNUM] The case on recognizing the mass extermination of the inhabitants of Crimea during the Great Patriotic War as genocide of the Soviet people began to be considered by the Supreme Court of the republic on June 20. This was announced in social networks by the speaker of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea Vladimir Konstantinov .
"Today's event - the beginning of the consideration by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea of the case of the mass destruction of Soviet citizens by the Nazis on the peninsula during the Great Patriotic War - is a very significant historical achievement for us. This is a reassessment of the crimes that the Nazis committed on our land," wrote Konstantinov.
He stressed that 77 years after the victory over Nazism, he again raised his head in the world.
"Then it was not finished off, it was not destroyed in due measure, and today for some countries it has become the norm of politics. In this regard, the tasks of our special military operation, including the denazification of Ukraine, are more relevant than ever. Of course, for us here, in the Crimea, in Russia, it is important to give a political and legal assessment of the crimes of the Nazis. I am convinced that this goal will be fully achieved," said Konstantinov.
As REGNUM reported , in the fall of 2020, the State Council of the Republic of Crimea sent to the prosecutor's office in court to recognize the massacres in the Krasny concentration camp as genocide of the Soviet people. We add that on June 17 it became known about the transfer to the archives of declassified documents about the atrocities of the invaders in Crimea.
The concentration camp "Red" was organized by the invaders in the area of the village of Mirnoye near Simferopol. At least 15,000 Crimeans were tortured here - women, old people, children.
[REGNUM] More than 130 thousand people became victims of the Nazis in the Crimea during the Great Patriotic War, the data was published on June 20 by the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia.
The prosecutor's office reported that the Supreme Court accepted for consideration an application recognizing as war crimes, crimes against humanity (humanity) and genocide of the peoples of the Soviet Union the atrocities committed by the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War on the territory of Crimea.
As part of the preparation of the lawsuit, joint work was carried out by the prosecutor's office, employees of the Investigative Committee and the FSB of Russia, and specialists. Archival documents and materials on the facts of crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices in the cities of Alushta, Evpatoria, Dzhankoy, Saki, Simferopol, Sudak, Kerch, Feodosia and Yalta, Bakhchisarai, Belogorsk, Dzhankoy, Kirovsk, Krasnogvardeisky, Leninsky, Nizhnegorsky, Razdolnensky were studied , Saki, Simferopol, Soviet districts.
“On the territory of the peninsula during the period of its occupation, units of the Wehrmacht and military formations of the Axis countries, special punitive and auxiliary units operated. In 1941-1944, they shot and burned, strangled in gas chambers, tortured and killed about 87,000 civilians and over 47,000 prisoners of war in Crimea in other ways, ”the prosecutor’s office cited data.
The invaders forcibly drove into slavery more than 85 thousand Crimeans, many died from overwork, starvation or were killed.
“The stated facts are confirmed by eyewitness accounts, materials of a criminal case against Wehrmacht employees and other Nazi military units deployed in the occupied territory, acts of the republican, city and district commissions for investigating atrocities and damage caused by the Nazi invaders.
The killings of civilians and prisoners of war have also been established and confirmed by the verdicts of courts and tribunals,” the prosecutor’s office stressed.
As REGNUM reported , on June 20, the Supreme Court of Crimea began considering the case on the genocide of the Soviet population in Crimea. Today, a preliminary meeting was held - a statement from the prosecutor's office and testimonies about the crimes of the Nazis were considered.
Disclosure: I wrote a few articles for Southfront back in the day. The people there are quite knowledgeable about Russia, I found. By Anatoly Koshkin
[REGNUM] "Walking" on the Internet, I accidentally found a comment on my interview with the newspaper of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Krasnaya Zvezda" in the publication "South Front" - SouthFront - Analysis & Intelligence (Analysis and intelligence), which was previously unknown to me. I still am blocked from redstar.ru
The title intrigued me, and I decided to find out what kind of publication showed interest in my opinion about the policy and strategy of the United States and its allies in the Asia-Pacific region, primarily Japan.
According to Wikipedia, SouthFront is a Russian-registered, multilingual fake news website (?!) that “combines Kremlin talking points with detailed knowledge of military systems and current conflicts, and attempts to reach out to military enthusiasts, veterans and conspiracy theorists."
According to the European Union's EU vs Disinfo, SouthFront publishes news covering "security issues, foreign policy, military analysis and reports on military equipment," "loyally conveying whatever suits the Kremlin".
And further: “In 2020, the US State Department described SouthFront as part of Russia’s "disinformation and propaganda ecosystem," where Russian statesmen team up with others whose links to Russia have been less obvious to bring their ideas to the forefront.
In 2021 and again in 2022, the US Treasury Department announced sanctions against SouthFront, calling it in 2021:
"an online disinformation site registered in Russia that… attempts to reach out to military enthusiasts, veterans and conspiracy theorists while going to great lengths to hide its ties to Russian intelligence."
A 2022 Treasury report alleged that SouthFront was sanctioned in part because it "owned or controlled, or acted or had the intent to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the FSB, which is the successor to the KGB in Russia."
I also happened to learn that "in 2017, researchers from the Internet Institute of Oxford University studied SouthFront’s collaboration with two sites in the United States, Veterans Today and its sister site Veterans News Now."
Veterans Today is a "fake news site actively promoting the Kremlin's party line," according to University of Washington professor Kate Starbird...
SouthFront officials responded to a Politico article about the Oxford study with an email saying they had nothing to do with the Russian government, adding that describing them as part of the Kremlin network "contradicts the principles of free speech and ... discriminates against Russians."
The editors of SouthFront, commenting on my interview with the respected Krasnaya Zvezda, did not contact me and did not inform me about their publication. For my part, I can say that I "have nothing to do with the Russian government" and even more so with the "Kremlin network."
Although I deeply understand and support the forced decision to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of demilitarizing and denazifying the territory and population of the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic currently controlled by the neo-Nazi regime.
Naturally, there can be nothing “conspiracy theoretical and disinformation” in my speeches, articles and comments, because I am first and foremost a historian, and then a political scientist. This also applies to the mentioned interview, which was analyzed by SouthFront under the heading "US joins forces for a second front in the Far East."
Since I generally agree with the content of the SouthFront material, I present it to the readers:
"The Japanese authorities have again started talking about the “occupied” territories and the need to upgrade the country's military power. This development of events is dictated by several aspects.
History is a good place to start. Japan's quest for revenge runs through the 20th and 21st centuries. At the moment, Japan does not feel that its interests are fully realized in strategic, economic and military terms.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida continued the rhetoric of his predecessors, defending the Kuril Islands and wanting to increase his influence in the region. After a tour of Asia and Europe, he had a conversation with the leaders of the United States and Australia, who were not satisfied with his attempts to get India to condemn Russia for its military operation.
Subsequently, Kishida put pressure on Indonesia as well, but taking into account the interests of the United States. This cooperation can be described as barter: the US will create an "Eastern NATO" copy of QUAD and AUKUS, and Japan will lead this hierarchy.
Political scientist and doctor of historical sciences Anatoly Koshkin explained why Japan has become so active in foreign policy.
Koshkin believes that the United States is in no hurry to open a "Second Front" in the East. Even White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that US President Joe Biden will travel to Tokyo and Seoul to negotiate with countries to support Ukraine. Most likely, this will affect China's attempts to return Taiwan to the country.
As a second argument, the expert noted the unwillingness of the US ground forces to participate in hostilities against large countries. The maximum that can be counted on is the continuation of arms supplies to Taiwan and an increase in the military contingent in Japan.
Anatoly Koshkin also doubts that the Japanese forces will provide any assistance other than logistical or food assistance, since Japan objectively does not have an army (in fact, the Japanese armed forces, recreated in violation of the country's Constitution, are included by analysts in terms of combat capabilities among the ten most powerful armies and fleets of the world - A.K.), and Japanese society has a negative attitude towards entering into any conflicts.
The next assumption, which the expert noted, is the unwillingness of a large bloc of Japanese elites to worsen relations with Russia. This is primarily dictated by the possible negative consequences for the Japanese economy and contradictions in the interests of security. Although the first part of this argument can be disputed, since the trade turnover between Russia and Japan is not so significant.
Tokyo hoped that after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian government would make concessions on territorial demands in exchange for promises of investment, loans, and economic cooperation. But since the Russian position on territorial issues was firm, the Japanese political leadership resumed the former anti-Soviet, and now anti-Russian rhetoric.
As the last argument, the expert called the escalation of sanctions against Russia and the desire to involve the ASEAN countries in the American policy plan to paralyze Russia's economic activity in the region.
On the one hand, the arguments of Anatoly Koshkin look very weighty. On the other hand, the situation in the Asia-Pacific region can be looked at more broadly. The United States, at least, is already preparing a bridgehead for the Eastern Front with the help of Japan. It would seem that this bloc is directed against China. But some contradictions arise: the US declared a trade war on China back in 2018 and threatened to launch military operations in the South China Sea, but in fact five years have passed without any military action; China has stepped up military patrols in the Senkaku (Diaoyudao) Islands and in the Taiwan area, while the United States again limited itself to threats; The United States did not impose sanctions against China due to its neutral position towards Ukraine and gas purchases from Russia through private companies. All these aspects may indicate that the coalition created by the United States is not directed against China, but against the Russian Federation. The success of these US plans will depend on Russia's actions in the region, Japan's ability to influence the ASEAN countries and India's willingness to abandon its policy of non-alignment (which is unlikely).
The author of these lines could enter into a discussion with the compilers of the above commentary, but I believe that this is not necessary now. Moreover, the main points of my analysis are presented without distortion.
In conclusion, I would like to note that the accusations against SouthFront cited above by Wikipedia belong to US ministries and departments, for which any positions and statements close to the policy of the Russian leadership, even generally recognized independent scientists and political scientists, are perceived as allegedly directed by the Kremlin "the hand of Moscow", subject to ostracism and persecution.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
